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Next day as the Exilona was sloshing across the Aegean, Samuel Insull sat down in the saloon with his custodian, began to see the advantages of eating American meals in the company of Americans. Growing expansive over a sandwich he told tales of strange and unusual hardships among Turks and Greeks. To a passenger who laughingly remarked, "I would trade my money for yours," he retorted, "That's the greatest insult you could cast on me. I have repeatedly said I have sunk everything I had in my business and that's the truth." Once he grew gruff...
MOJAVE - Edwin Corle - Liveright ($2). Western short stories, in which the quality of the sandwich varies but is somewhat ham in flavor...
...whiskey bottles now avidly sought by collectors as South Jersey glass. Most famed U. S. glassmaker was Henry William ("Baron") Stiegel who established a plant in Mannheim, Pa. in 1765, lived in a castle, had guns fired whenever he entered or left town, and died in bankruptcy in 1785. Sandwich glass, familiar in blue dolphin candlesticks, setting hens, and patterned tumblers, was made in Sandwich, Mass. for 60 years during the 19th Century. Later still, the golden iridescences of Tiffany glass, created by the late Louis Comfort Tiffany (TIME, Jan. 30, 1933), had a transitory popularity. Although collectors crow over...
...this case is all too intimately connected with his pocketbook. Apparently, he expected--somewhat naively, one is inclined to think--that any telegram from him would simply be assumed to proceed from the most altruistic reasons. For how could the boy who flew across the ocean with only a sandwich for company, who was so blushing and modest and gawky in the face of virtual deification, who got bored at a risque musical comedy, who ostentatiously spurned liquor and lechery, do anything ignoble? Unfortunately, Lindy has been as mistaken in his analysis of the public temper...
...years while he wrote letters to Their Majesties and to every public man in England claiming to be the natural son of George V's elder brother, the late Duke of Clarence. He was arrested only when he "menaced" George V as follows: "I am having made sandwich boards, giving the particulars of my case. I shall personally carry those boards about the streets of London in an attempt to secure Justice. I would be satisfied with enough money to start a modern boarding house...